Creating Disk Image

User's guide:

Create a Disk Image

A Disk Image is a mirror copy of your entire
logical drive (volume) or
physical device (HDD, USB, ...) stored as set of files. It may be agood idea to create a Disk Image for a drive containing deleted files that you want to recover,if you have enough space on another drive.

You might ask, "Why should I create a Disk Image on a drive that holds my deleted files?"

Here is the answer: If you do something wrong while attempting to recover the files (for example, recovering
files onto
the same drive could destroy their contents), you will be able to recover
these deleted files and folders from the Disk Image that you have wisely
created.

Disk Image (Active@ Image format) consists of configuration file (with an extension .DIM)
and set of file chunks having extensions .000, .001, .002 ...
By default Active@ File Recovery tries to create one file (chunk) for the whole volume/device.
However, if the target location is FAT, it may not be possible due to file system limitations.
In this particular case the disk image is split into several chunks and each file has a size of 2Gb.
Chunks content can be RAW or RAW-Compressed, depending on settings.

To create a Disk Image:

Start Active@ File Recovery and select a drive (volume) or
physical device that you want to
create image for

To open the Create Image dialog box, do one of the
following:

Choose Create Image... from the File menu

Press Ctrl+I key combination

Right-click the device and choose Create Image
on the context menu

Select another physical device or another logical drive to store Disk Image files

Browse to the folder where you want to save the Disk Image

To give the Disk Image file a different name, type a new name in the File Name
field

Click Save to start Disk Image creation

Watch the progress and wait while drive's contents
are copied to the new location. You may cancel the process of
image creation anytime by clicking Stop